Waistband for trousers



C. THERO WAISTBAND FOR TROUSERS APPLICATION FILED JULY 10 Patented Sept. 19, 1922.

Patented Sept 19,

R'L'IE rrinno, or

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Q W rs i 1 1M t e a a ii 33 w m a A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

WATSTBA'ND FOB TROUSERS.

Application filed July 10,

T0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that T, CHARLIE Tnnno, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Waistbands for Trousers, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

The invention relates to new and'useful improvements in waist bands for trousers, and has for an object to provide a waist band construction which includes a stifiening strip and a facing strip, and wherein the facing strip covers both edges of the stiffening strip and also the upper edge of the body of the trousers and is secured to the body of the trousers by means of two lines of stitching which can be simultaneously made.

A further object of the invention is to provide a waist band construction for trousers which includes a skirt consisting of a folded fabric section having its edges stitched by the line of stitches securing the lower edge of the facing strip and in such manner that the body of the skirt conceals the stitches which secure it to the body of the trousers.

Zn the drawings Figure l is a vertical sectional view through the body portion of the trousers, having my improved waist band construction applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a similar view, but showing the position of the skirt during the stitching of the parts and prior to the tacking down of said skirt;

Figure 3 is a view showing a slightly modified form of the invention-in that the skirt is omitted.

The invention consists broadly of a waist band for trousers, which includes a stiffenstrip and a facing strip which covers the stiffening strip, the facing being turned underneath the stiffening strip at the lower edge thereof and carried about the upper edge of the stiffening strip and over the edge of the trousers onto the face side thereof, the edge of the facing strip being turned under so as to eliminate the raw edge effect, and the facing strip and stiffening strip are secured by two lines of stitching which may 1920. Serial No. 395,196.

be made in one operation on a two needle machine.

In one form of the invention, a skirt is secured by the lower line of stitching and this line of stitching is so disposed relative to the body of the skirt as to be concealed thereby when said skirt is turned down and pressed or tacked.

Referring in detail to the drawings, I have shown the body portion of the trousers at 1, the stifiening strip at 2 and the facing strip at 3; The facing strip is turned under neath the lower edge of the stiffening strip, as indicated at 4C. The facing strip is also carried around the upper edge of the stiffening strip and around the upper edge of the body of the trousers and the edge being inturned, as indicated at 5 in the drawing. A line of stitching 6 passes through the facing strip and stiffening strip and secures these parts to the body of the trousers adjacent the upper edge of the trousers. A line of stitching 7 passes through the facing strip, the stiffening strip and the body of the trousers adja cut the lower edge of the stiffening strip and serves to secure the facing strip and stiffening strip to the body of the trousers. These two lines of stitching may b made on the ordinary two needle machine and formed in one operation.

in the preferred form of the invention shown in Figures 1' and 2, a skirt 8 is provided. This skirt is folded between its side edges and the free edges of the skirt are secured by the stitches 7'. The skirt is laid back on the facing strip, as shown in Figure 2, during this stitching operation, after which the skirt is turned down to its normal position, as shown in Figure l, and is tacked as indicated at 9. These tacking slitches may be at intervals and through the pocket sections of the trousers. t will be noted that the stitches 7 are concealed by the body portion of the skirt at the inside of the trousers. This skirt serves as a finish for the lower portion of the waist band, covering and concealing the stitches which join the waist band to the body portion of the trousers.

Having thus described my invention, what ters Patent, is:

1. The combination of the body fabric of trousers, a stiffening strip at the waist band,

1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letits a facing strip covering said stiffening strip, said facing strip being turned underneath the edge of the stiffening strip at the lower edge thereof and extending about the stiff ening strip and the upper edge of the trousersonithe front face of the body portion of the trousers,'andparallel lines of stitching passing through the facingstrip and the stiffening strip and the body of the trousers adjacent the edges-of the facing ening strip and the upper edge of the trousers :on the front face of the body portion of the trousers, parallel lines of stitching passing through the facing strip and the stiffening strip and the body of the trousers adjacent the edges of the facing strip, a

skirt consisting of a fabric section folded.

between its side edges and having. its free edges superposed and secured by the stitches passing through the lower edge portion of the facing strip, said skirt being folded down to conceal said stitches and tacked to the body of the'trousers,

In testimony whereof, I affix mysignature.

CHARLIE THERQ' 

